RT: Jeff, thanks for your time and congrats on selection for the London Olympics marathon. Did the selection come as a surprise?
JH: It was a pleasant surprise. I had hoped that Athletics Australia would pick a full team, but I was never really certain that anyone other than Michael...
It's been a better period in my running than when I last wrote. Last time I was at the end of an 18 month period of lower leg issues. Now I'm healthy and am running well.
I was able to start running in mid November last year and I had...
I will start off talking about the lead up to the season in which I had a lot of interruptions all throughout the winter. It all started when I begun to come back from my break after the 2009 World Cross Country Championships. I was about 2 weeks back...
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Nickname: Em or Brichacek
Career highlight to date: Representing Australia at the World Cross Country Championships (2008 and 2009) also winning my first open national titles in cross country and 10000m (2011/2012)
Favourite distance: 5000m
Running idol: Emil Zatopek and Herb Elloitt
RT: Emily, good run at the Carlsbad 5000m? How was the...
Yes, it has been a long time since my last blog. Blogging is also something that is very uncharacteristic of me, time just seems to always get the better of me and here I am with less than 10 weeks trying to turn things around “pronto” in my aim...
“How thing’s are on the sidelines”
I said to myself that I was going to study today; so naturally I haven’t actually got much done at all so far and it’s already mid afternoon. Instead of doing absolutely nothing I figured I should do something constructive…
As most people will know,...
In my last blog I made the terrible mistake of saying how I had actually had my first winter where I had been able to train right through and I obviously jinxed myself.
While competing at the ITU triathlon weekend on the gold coast in the bike race a guy...
Life’s challenges are not suppose to paralyse you, they’re suppose to help discover who you are.”
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The 7th IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France 6th-10th July 2011 was a marvellous experience! I went with a great group of talented athletes and managers; we bonded so well as a team....
“What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?” - Steve Prefontaine
I have read that this was Pre’s response when he witnessed his high school cross country team training. And I was reminded of it on my regular Sunday long run recently when...
By your own admission you had a “poor” Nationals due to sickness. What happened and how did you recover?
Yeah 2011 was a poor Nationals from me based on my performance at the Championships. Everything leading into Nationals was going great. Six weeks prior I had posted a time that...
